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The “White Paper 3: A Programme for the Transformation of higher education” was a report documenting South Africa's transition from Apartheid and minority rule to a democracy. The White Paper notes higher education as playing a “critical role in the social, cultural and economic development of modern societies”. [5]
Rhodes Must Fall movement is said to have been motivated by a desire to decolonize knowledge and education in South Africa. [ 1 ] Decolonization of knowledge (also epistemic decolonization or epistemological decolonization ) is a concept advanced in decolonial scholarship [ note 1 ] [ note 2 ] that critiques the perceived hegemony of Western ...
Decolonizing education aims to challenge and transform existing educational systems that have historically perpetuated colonization and marginalized Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing. In particular, it aims to center Indigenous knowledge systems, languages, and cultural perspectives within educational institutions. [27]
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies, in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Pacific and Asian Studies, is both an academic department and a research center on the Pacific Islands and issues of concern to Pacific Islanders.
The term "miseducation" was coined by Carter G. Woodson to describe the process of systematically depriving African Americans of their knowledge of self. Woodson believed that miseducation was the root of the problems of the masses of the African-American community and that if the masses of the African-American community were given the correct knowledge and education from the beginning, they ...
Institutional arguments suggest that increasing levels of education in the colonies led to calls for popular sovereignty; Marxist analyses view decolonization as a result of economic shifts toward wage labor and an enlarged bourgeois class; yet another argument sees decolonization as a diffusion process wherein earlier revolutionary movements ...
"Practical theology and the call for the decolonisation of higher education in South Africa: Reflections and proposals". HTS Theological Studies. 73 (4): 1– 7. doi: 10.4102/hts.v73i4.4805. ISSN 0259-9422. Fregoso Bailón, Raúl Olmo; De Lissovoy, Noah (2018). "Against coloniality: Toward an epistemically insurgent curriculum". Policy Futures ...
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples is a book by New Zealand academic Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Originally published in 1999, Decolonizing Methodologies is a foundational text in Indigenous studies that explores the intersections of colonialism and research methodologies.